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INDUSTRY FACES


Garat, Heisser Receive Metallurgy Awards Te Advanced Casting Research


Center (ACRC) of Worcester Poly- technic Institute (WPI), Worcester, Mass., has announced Michael Garat, aluminum foundry metallurgy consul- tant, and Christof Heisser, president, Magma Foundry Technologies, Scha- umburg, Ill., as the winners of two of its most prestigious metallurgy awards. Garat will receive the Merton C.


Flemings Award in recognition of his work and for significantly contribut- ing to the commercial application of solidification processing fundamentals. Garat worked for more than 30


years with Aluminum Pechiney and then most recently for Rio Tinto Alcan. His fields of expertise include the effects/interactions of the alloy structure, solidification conditions, and melt quality on mechanical properties; improved high performance cylinder head alloys; and new foundry process-


Christof Heisser (left) and Michael Garat have been named the winners of metallurgy awards from the Advanced Casting Research Center of Worcester Polytechnic Institute.


es and their interrelationship with alloy choice and final properties. Heisser will receive the Ray H. Witt


Award in recognition of his leader- ship in the aluminum casting industry. Heisser began his career as leader of research and development at Tyssen Feinguss, an aluminum investment


casting facility in Soest, Germany. He joined Magma GmbH in Aachen, Germany, and in 1995 moved to Magma’s Chicago-area office. Te Flemings and Witt awards will


be presented at a formal ceremony on June 25 during the ACRC’s biannual meeting on the WPI campus.


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